Does anybody else have a library of saved commands/scripts? What’s in it? How do you organize it? Is there anything you’d want to share that other people might find helpful?

I do. I keep it in VS Code and store complicated (for me) stuff that I can’t remember or worry I might not.

  1. Playlist download with yt-dlp with all my best settings, adding playlist index as track number.

  2. Ffmpeg metadata cleaner for music. Searching title for a bunch of specific strings to remove, setting the band, album, etc. and saving these in a new folder.

  3. Desktop file contents for when I need to create one for an appimage

  4. The script I used to bind audio output switching to a hotkey

  5. How to use ADB for when android blocks sideloading the normal way and I inevitably forget what Android Debug Bridge is or how to use it.

Linux Mint btw. Also yes, I am a noob.

  • fratermus@piefed.socialEnglish
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    6 hours ago

    When you do aliased commands, can they take arguments? Like to download a playlist with yt-dlp, could i do download-playlist [URL]?

    They don’t take arguments in the sense that functions do but in bash at least they are passed on as part of the expanded string. Pasted from bash:

    alias argtest='echo arg is'  
argtest foo  
arg is foo

    So yes you could alias your yt-dlp commands and invoke the alias with the URL.